I have spent large chunks of my life surrounded by wonderful loving circumstances that I failed to appreciate.  Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I couldn’t or wouldn’t connect with them. I feel gratitude and worship in my daily life and feel joy in very simple pleasure.  In fact I have learned to give myself license to be to have and experience pleasure. 

I’m not sure if it my age or simply my reaction to being hurt. But I find connections 

 is the only reasonable respond to being hurt. To reach out to be vulnerable to risk being hurt again to love again without reservations. 

I am free to totally love.